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The Art Collection
        
                  AOC employees are responsible for the care and preservation of more than 300 works of art, architectural elements and landscape features. Browse the collection below or learn more about our artists and featured collections.
    
    
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        ArtistAllyn CoxConstantino BrumidiJohn TrumbullThomas CrawfordVinnie Ream
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        LocationBrumidi CorridorsCannon House Office BuildingCapitol DomeCapitol Reflecting PoolCapitol RotundaCox CorridorsCryptDirksen Senate Office BuildingFord House Office BuildingHall of ColumnsHart Senate Office BuildingHouse ChamberJames Madison Memorial BuildingLongworth House Office BuildingNational Statuary HallOld Senate ChamberOld Supreme Court ChamberRayburn House Office BuildingRussell Senate Office BuildingSenate ChamberSmall House RotundaSmall Senate RotundaSupreme Court BuildingThomas Jefferson BuildingU.S. Capitol BuildingU.S. Capitol GroundsU.S. Capitol Visitor Center
      Willa Cather Statue

Nebraska gave this statue of Willa Cather to the National Statuary Hall Collection in 2023. Littleton Alston (1958- ) is the first African American sculptor to be represented in this collection.
    Harry S. Truman Statue

Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) was a U.S. senator from Missouri and served as president of the United States from 1945 to 1953. Missouri gave this statue of him to the National Statuary Hall Collection in 2022. Artist Tom Corbin (1954- ) took up modeling and bronze casting in his thirties and now sculpts, designs furniture and accessories, and paints.
    Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune

Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955) was an educator, civil rights activist, and presidential advisor. This statue was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Florida in 2022. Nilda Comas is the first artist of Puerto Rican descent commissioned to sculpt a statue for the National Statuary Hall Collection.
    Amelia Earhart Statue

Amelia Mary Earhart (1897-c.1937) was a record-setting aviator, an author, and a businesswoman. This statue was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Kansas in 2022. Sculptors Mark and George Lundeen are brothers; they also sculpted the statue of John L. "Jack" Swigert.
    Chief Standing Bear Statue

This statue of Chief Standing Bear was given to the U.S. Capitol's National Statuary Hall Collection by Nebraska in 2019. Standing Bear's statue replaced one of William Jennings Bryan, which the state donated to the Collection in 1937.
    POW/MIA Chair of Honor

In November 2017 a Chair of Honor was unveiled in the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center's Emancipation Hall to commemorate American service men and women who are prisoners of war or missing in action (POW/MIA). This chair is one of the original ordered in 1857 for the new House Chamber.
    Thomas Edison Statue

This statue of Thomas Edison was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Ohio in 2016. Edison's statue replaced one of William Allen, which the state donated to the Collection in 1887.
    Barry Goldwater Statue

This statue of Barry Goldwater was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Arizona in 2015. Goldwater's statue replaced one of John Campbell Greenway, which the state of Arizona donated to the National Statuary Hall Collection in 1930.
    Dr. Norman E. Borlaug Statue

This statue of Dr. Norman E. Borlaug was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Iowa in 2014. Borlaug's statue replaced a statue of James Harlan, which Iowa had donated in 1910.
    Rosa Parks Statue

Rosa Parks' statue was unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the United States Capitol, approximately 100 years after her birth on February 4, 1913. This statue depicts Parks seated on a rock-like formation of which she seems almost a part, symbolizing her famous refusal to give up her bus seat in 1955.
    Frederick Douglass Statue

The statue of noted abolitionist Frederick Douglass features him standing beside a lectern and an inkwell with quill pen sits in reference to his work as an author.
    Sir Winston Churchill Bust

The bust of Sir Winston Churchill is the third estate cast made from a life model that was created in the 1950s. The tributes carved on the pedestal are "Statesman, Honorary U.S. Citizen, Defender of Freedom."
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